 | 1907 - 736 páginas
...when shaken violently and yields sulphur when boiled. As you appreach the country of the Cats you find heavy and thick water which ignites like brandy and...it. It is, moreover, so oily that all our savages used it to anoint and grease their heads and bodies." The first of these springs has never been identified.... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Campbell - 1908 - 414 páginas
...when shaken violently and yields sulphur when boiled. As you approach the country of the Cats you find heavy and thick water which ignites like brandy and...savages use it to anoint and grease their heads and bodies." The first of these springs has never been identified. " The burning spring near the Senecas... | |
 | John Huston Finley - 1915 - 460 páginas
...the surrounding soil, which has only to be washed in order to obtain perfectly pure sulphur—ignites when shaken violently, and yields sulphur when boiled....use it to anoint and grease their heads and their bodies."—"Jesuit Relations, 1657," 43 : 261. Pierre Boucher (governor of Three Rivers in 1653-8 and... | |
 | Frank Hayward Severance - 1917 - 532 páginas
...description of the Iroquois country : " As one approaches nearer to the country of the Cats [te, the Eries], one finds heavy and thick water, which ignites like...use it to anoint and grease their heads and their bodies." Father Chaumonot was among the Senecas in 1656, as were, at various times, Fathers Fremin,... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - 1917 - 498 páginas
...description of the Iroquois country : " As one approaches nearer to the country of the Cats [te, the Eries], one finds heavy and thick water, which ignites like...use it to anoint and grease their heads and their bodies." Father Chaumonot was among the Senecas in 1656, as were, at various times, Fathers Fremin,... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - 1917 - 494 páginas
...description of the Iroquois country : " As one approaches nearer to the country of the Cats [ie, the Eries], one finds heavy and thick water, which ignites like...use it to anoint and grease their heads and their bodies." Father Chaumonot was among the Senecas in 1656, as were, at various times, Fathers Fremin,... | |
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Eries], one finds heavy and thick water, which ignites like brandy, and boils up in bubbles of flame when fire is applied to it. It is moreover so oily that all our savages use it to anoint and grease their heads and their bodies. 